An analyst describes the smartphone innovations he expects from Apple in 2010
Photo: Apple Inc.
In a note to clients issued Wednesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster suggests three ways Apple (AAPL) can stay ahead of the coming wave of smartphones powered by Google's (GOOG) Android OS.
Build an iPhone for Verizon. Munster continues to believe there's a 70% chance Verizon (VZ) will get an iPhone before the end of 2010. The value MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 9, 2009 2:38 PM ET
A Florida university is providing each of its student athletes with a MacBook Pro
USF Bulls with MacBooks. Photo: Joseph Gamble
They get the glory. They get the cheerleaders. And now they get free MacBooks.
In what it claims is a first, the University of South Florida announced Wednesday that it is loaning all of its student athletes -- some 460 in all -- 13-inch MacBook Pros so that can keep up MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 9, 2009 11:54 AM ET
Cisco CEO John Chambers and strategy chief Ned Hooper address analysts. Photo: Jon Fortt.
Cisco has its swagger back.
When the networking provider hosted Wall Street analysts at its San Jose headquarters Tuesday for its annual update on the state of the business, the most striking thing was the full-scale return of confidence. After a year in which most of tech has struggled to regain its footing in a global financial MORE
Jon Fortt - Dec 9, 2009 11:52 AM ET
In the new business world, smart data analysis can be the smart executive's crystal ball.
By Rob Ashe, general manager, business analytics and performance management, IBM
Ashe advocates for analytics. Photo: IBM
What if the financial industry could capture enough foresight on the right trends and indicators to pinpoint the next potential Ponzi scheme before it unravels? What if scientists could better predict infectious disease outbreaks such as H1N1? What MORE
Dec 9, 2009 9:00 AM ET
Production is starting and should hit mass-market stride in February, says an analyst
Artist's rendition of an Apple tablet computer, with iPhone. Credit: AppleInsider
"The manufacturing cogs for the tablet are creaking into action," writes Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner in a note to clients issued Wednesday morning.
According to his supply chain sources, Apple (AAPL) appears to be gearing up to build as many as 1 million tablet computers per month. Assuming the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 9, 2009 7:11 AM ET
Apple's plans to build a second Cupertino campus got a green light Monday. Here's why.
Three years ago last April, Steve Jobs himself addressed the Cupertino city council to announce his intention to expand Apple's (AAPL) operations in their town.
After telling council members that he had originally thought to build a new campus in another city, he reminded them that Apple was -- and still is -- the town's largest tax MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 8, 2009 3:38 PM ET
The company has ousted two of its cheesiest iPhone developers. It's time to finish the job.
Some Brighthouse Labs apps. Source: iappphone.com
Last summer, Apple (AAPL) made headlines when it revoked the license of one of the most prolific third-party iPhone developers, a Pakistani operation called Perfect Acumen that managed to get 943 apps past the App Store review process before somebody noticed that most were nearly worthless and dozens contained MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 8, 2009 12:10 PM ET
Living in the post-Visa world
By Roger C. Wood, CEO, ORCA Inc.
Wood: Currency is a-changin'. Photo: ORCA
When I was contemplating moving from the wireless sector to the Web sector, I read just about every column Nick Negroponte wrote as a columnist for WIRED Magazine. His departing piece, entitled "Beyond Digital" was published in December 1998 and served as an inspiration to me. After reading it, I left MORE
Dec 8, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Tech's top vendors see small companies as a big opportunity.
Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) tops a new ranking of technology companies effectively serving small businesses online by providing a rich, educational web experience for small companies.
Compass Intelligence, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based consulting firm, analyzes the websites of dozens of tech companies - and interviews small business owners and executives - to come up with its rankings, which it publishes twice each year.
Microsoft leaped to the No. 1 ranking from No. 6 in the MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Dec 8, 2009 6:45 AM ET
Seagate's Pulsar drive uses single-level cell NAND flash, and is the first of what analysts expect will be many solid-state products from the storage giant. Image: Seagate.
Flash memory – the stuff that stores data in consumer gadgets like phones and digital cameras – is also finding its way into more corporate data centers. It turns out that while flash is still far more expensive than trusty old hard drives, MORE
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